Eduardo J. Padrón is the former president of Miami Dade College, a 2015 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a signatory of PEN America’s Champions of Higher Education Statement of Purpose.
Eduardo J. Padrón
Former President, Miami Dade College
Articles by Eduardo J. Padrón
Thursday November 9
America’s Censored Classrooms 2023, an introduction by Eduardo Padrón
It has now been three years since a wave of legislative attacks began to sweep American state legislatures – a wave that has never let up. These legislative proposals censor the teaching of race and slavery in American schools, classroom acknowledgement of LGBTQ+ identity, and the very foundations of academic independence in higher education. This